Present information to customers about the energy efficiency or environmental impact of scientific or technical products.

“Present information to customers about the energy efficiency or environmental impact of scientific or technical products.” is a supplemental task performed by Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products. Among the occupation's 36 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#32 most important). About 47% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Explain technical details of products or services. in Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
• Promote products, services, or programs. in Selling or Influencing Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements. · importance 4.3
• Prepare and submit sales contracts for orders. · importance 4.2
• Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales. · importance 4.2
• Sell service contracts for technical or scientific products. · importance 4.2
• Maintain customer records, using automated systems. · importance 4.2
• Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, or credit terms. · importance 4.2
• Quote prices, credit terms, or other bid specifications. · importance 4.1
• Contact new or existing customers to discuss how specific products or services can meet their needs. · importance 4.1
• Emphasize product features, based on analyses of customers' needs and on technical knowledge of product capabilities and limitations. · importance 4.0
• Compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings from new services, products, or equipment. · importance 4.0
• Demonstrate the operation or use of technical or scientific products. · importance 4.0
• Provide feedback to product design teams so that products can be tailored to clients' needs. · importance 3.9
• Select or assist customers in selecting products based on customer needs, product specifications, and applicable regulations. · importance 3.9
• Prepare sales presentations or proposals to explain product specifications or applications. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-19826,
  title  = {Present information to customers about the energy efficiency or environmental impact of scientific or technical products.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-19826}
}